Method, system and program product for automatically linking web documents
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorJohn F. Patterson
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Abstract
The present invention automatically links web documents to other, existing web documents. Specifically, when a web document is requested, the content therein will be compared to an index of references and addresses to determine whether any related web documents exist. If any of the content matches any of the references in the index, a related web document does exist. The address corresponding to the related web document will then be bound to the matching content of the requested web document. This process occurs before the web document is displayed to the user and alleviates the problems associated with hyperlinks to non-existing web documents.
Claims29
A computer-implemented method for automatically linking web documents, comprising:
- providing a requested web document having content;
- determining whether a related web document exists by comparing the content to an index while the requested web document is loading, wherein the index correlates references with addresses of web documents, and wherein the related web document exists if a portion of the content matches any of the references in the index;
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- converting the matching portion of content into a hyperlink to the related web document.
A method for automatically linking web documents, comprising:
- providing a requested web document, wherein the requested web document comprises content that includes a reference to a related web document;
- determining whether the related web document exists by comparing the content to an index while the requested web document is loading, wherein the index correlates references with addresses of related web documents, and wherein the related web document exists if the reference in the requested web page is present in the index;
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- converting the reference into a hyperlink to the related web document if the related web document exists, prior to displaying the requested web document.
A system for automatically linking web documents, comprising:
- a document system for accessing a requested web document having content;
- a determination system for determining whether a related web document exists by comparing the content to an index while the requested web document is loading, wherein the index correlates references with addresses of web documents, and wherein the related web document exists if any portion of the content matches any of the references in the index;
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- a binding system for converting a matching portion of content into a hyperlink to the related web document.
A program product stored on a recordable medium for automatically linking web documents, which when executed, comprises:
- program code for accessing a requested web document having content;
- program code for determining whether a related web document exists by comparing the content to an index while the requested web document is loading, wherein the index correlates references with addresses of web documents, and wherein the related web document exists if any portion of the content matches any of the references;
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- program code for converting the matching portion of content into a hyperlink to the related web document.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.